Lockdown was getting to me and after two months off the booze because of gout, I started doing little videos of me making up cocktails. They got sillier and sillier.
Dry Martini, Reverse Martini, Espresso Martini, Daiquiri and Bloody Mary feature in the vids.
Two of my shirts have quite a meaning behind them. Somehow my wardrobe gravitates to stripy shirts. I don’t know if a conscious thing or price driven by Internet sales.
One represents resilience and another represents change. Not as Woo Woo as it might sound.
Back when Next catalogues were a thing, a big deal - de rigueur shopping before Internet shopping was a glint in anyone’s eye, I bought a green stripy shirt that has lasted a lifetime. Is it really a lifetime when I am still alive?
Miroslav Lucan is an artist, designer and photographer that has built a reputation for his street art murals. Born in the Czech Republic, he has now found home in Bournemouth for the past 15 years.
The inspiration behind commissioning Miroslav was a desire to build a connection between "place and people", within the local context of Dorset. For my company Datacenta Hosting, this was more than just decorating a clinical work unit with colour.
I now have an old Nissan Leaf fully electric car, an older 2012 model. Bought it for fun and to understand how it all works, as in how it fits into work life along with the pros and cons. I wanted to see what life is like living with electric cars and whether by using it to make my daily drive to work, to the shops and to teach karate, whether I can also keep my gas guzzling Mazda CX-7 and be cost-neutral.
The owner of the garage had already told me that it might say 90 miles as the range, but 70 is more realistic. I can accept that, given the age of the car and its batteries.
I had only zipped around town for the first 3 days and only got it fully charged for Saturday morning. It declared a range of 90 miles. I popped over to Christchurch for an order of KFC's 20 wing bucket and could see the 90 coming down pretty quickly to 70 something in no time at all.
#gifted
Mark kindly invited me and Angela to come to his Humans of Hospitality Live event, named after his podcast. In the podcast he travels the UK interviewing people from the hospitality trade, drinks distillers, food suppliers and industry organisations in order to give you a different take on what it takes to serve a fantastic meal in a restaurant or to provide a great hospitality experience.
Gordon and Angela Fong - living in Southbourne, working hard, enjoying life, travelling the world, eating great food and drinking some nice tipple along the way.
Give us a wave.
